Combe Martin in Devon – Bolshie Brummies a plenty

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

Combe Martin is a Devonshire bumpkin village and small “seaside resort” (apparently), about 4 miles east of Ilfracombe in North Devon. There are very few Devonians left in this **** town, where the average age is 0-18 or over 60; anyone else who wants a normal life ‘gets the hell out of Dodge’, and lets […]

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Combe Martin: One Foot in the Grave, set in Devon’s own Royston Vasey

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

Combe Martin?  A civil parish and former manor on the North Devon coast about 4 miles east of Ilfracombe.  You can’t really mistake this place, and you mustn’t.  Think Withnail and I and One Foot in the Grave, set in Devon’s own Royston Vasey. “Out of the World and into Combe Martin” as its old […]

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Combe Martin, North Devon – The CamberWickerMan Green Village

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

It’s an unfortunate well-known fact that the further north you go in Devon, the uglier and weirder the people. People don’t usually move to dark and windswept Combe Martin, they’re sent or abducted to this village of strange rites and pagan rituals on the edge of Exmoor. This is the racist alcoholics’ graveyard with a […]

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Combe Martin: The zit on the **** of England

Living in Combe Martin, North Devon

If the world had piles, they’d be in Combe Martin, North Devon. I live here, but you can’t call it life. The good old British transport network, the seaside, shopping, and clothes, are old hat and cliché. You don’t need these things and Combe Martin hasn’t got them. What you need is people from Birmingham, […]

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Combe Martin, has been called “Trumpton Vasey” by visitors

Living in Combe Martin

My family lives there in Combe Martin. I wouldn’t. Combe Martin is an acquired taste and an elephant’s graveyard; it can be “the most depressing, hopeless and generally futureless place on earth” not least between October and May each year, when it’s dark and stormy, wet, depressing and deserted. My relatives would perish without a […]

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Combe Martin is definitely not interesting, lively or quaint in any way

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

I’m Bob and I live here. Combe Martin is definitely not interesting, lively or quaint. In any way. It’s dark, humourless, miserable and depressing. Those who don’t live in lorries in the fields are “Masons you know”; up their own backside much?. The village is blessed with a lovely Sweet Shop and Bakery but no […]

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